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Metadata
Title:Causality I video stimulus
RScausality
Lowland Chontal Documentation
Contributor:loretta
Contributor (consultant):francisco
anacleto
andrés
simón
marilut
gilda
Coverage:Mexico
Date:2002-07-23
Description:This video stimulus was composed of a collection of clips pulled from ECOM, Cut & Break, and other MPI stimulus sets. The intention was to sort out depictions of direct vs indirect causation, delayed vs immediate state change, and the like.
The Lowland Chontal Documentation project began as a dissertation project at the University of California at Santa Barbara (1997-2001), continued at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (2002-2004), and was finished through a post-doctoral research grant funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (2004-2007). The goals of the dissertation research were (1) to investigate the formal, semantic, and discourse-functional profiles of predicates used to describe events of change of location, change of position, and change of state, and (2) to produce a grammatical sketch of the language in a descriptive and discourse-functional framework. The post-doctoral documentation project encompassed both linguistic and anthropological investigation. The goals of this larger project were (1) to produce a Chontal-English-Spanish dictionary, (2) to produce a comprehensive description of the grammar of Lowland Chontal, (3) to document the cultural heritage of the Chontalpa with respect to the land itself, and (4) to create an electronic archive of all audio and video materials and related texts.
A series of video clips was meant to sort out perceptions of direct vs indirect causation, immediate vs delayed state change, and the like. The clips were unfortunately too similar, consisting mostly of abstract mechanical shapes with little appeal, and the distinctions were too subtle and/or not encoded by Chontal. This task was enormously boring and repetitious for the consultants.
Format:video/x-mpeg1
application/pdf
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0005-825B-7
Publisher:Loretta O'Connor
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Volkswagen Foundation
Subject:Discourse
Description
causality
Lowland Oaxaca Chontal language
Chontal de Oaxaca - Costa
Spanish language
Subject (ISO639):clo
spa
Type:video

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0005-825B-7
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Citation: francisco (consultant); anacleto (consultant); andrés (consultant); simón (consultant); loretta; marilut (consultant); gilda (consultant). 2002-07-23. Loretta O'Connor.
Terms: area_Americas area_Europe country_ES country_MX iso639_clo iso639_spa

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Country: SpainMexico
Area: AmericasEurope


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